Adrian Hill

Adrian Hill was a British artist, writer, educator and broadcaster, born in Charlton, south-east London, on 24 March 1895. He served with the Honourable Artillery Company in the First World War and became the first artist commissioned by the Imperial War Museum to record the conflict on the Western Front. He wrote many books on painting and drawing, and worked as an art therapist. In the 1950s and early 1960s he presented a BBC children’s television programme called Sketch Club. He died in 1977.